Sights in Friuli Venezia Giulia
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Castello di Duino
A privately owned 14th- and 15th-century bastion filled with all sorts of artworks and curios and surrounded by a verdant garden. The Prague poet Rainer Maria Rilke was a guest here in 1911 and 1912. Take bus 41 from Piazza Oberdan.
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Canal Grande
Austrian town planners, at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa, designed much of the elegant city centre area north of Corso Italia in the 18th century. The pretty Canal Grande marks the northern end of the harbour.
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Museo della Comunità Ebraica Carlo e Vera Wagner
Memories of Trieste’s Jewish heritage are preserved at the Museo della Comunità Ebraica Carlo e Vera Wagner, which has a small exhibition of liturgical items, textiles, documents and photographs.
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Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio
The grand Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio, which was built from 1654 to 1724, lords over the town centre with a broad brush stroke of Eastern mystery, topped as it is by onion-shaped domes.
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Museo d’Arte Orientale
The Museo d’Arte Orientale, in an 18th-century town house, contains an eclectic collection of Chinese porcelain and Japanese prints, drawings, musical instruments and weaponry.
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Roman Theatre
Behind Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia rise remains of the Roman theatre, which was built between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Concerts are held here occasionally during summer.
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Synagogue
To the northeast of Museo della Comunità Ebraica Carlo e Vera Wagner lies Trieste’s huge synagogue, one of the biggest in Italy (and heavily damaged during WWII).
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Museo del Duomo
Housed in a couple of chapels is the Museo del Duomo, among whose most interesting elements are the 13th- to 17th-century frescoes in the Cappella di San Nicolò.
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Palazzo Coronini Cronberg
Palazzo Coronini Cronberg is not only a sprawling 16th-century residence jammed with antiquities and art, it is also set in lush gardens that are free to visit.
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Borgo Castello
Gorizia’s main sight is its castello perched, rather like Trieste’s, atop a knoll-like hill. It was restored in the 1920s after suffering serious damage in WWI.
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Chiesa di San Francesco
The 13th-century Chiesa di San Francesco was once one of Udine’s most striking churches. It is now used as a gallery and is open only during exhibitions.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore
The baroque Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, is a cavernous church whose main point of interest is the tiny painting by Sassoferrato of the Madonna della salute.
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Museo Archeologico
Admission to the Galleria d'Arte Antica includes a visit to the Museo Archeologico, also in the castle, with objects dating as far back as the Iron Age.
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Cathedral
Heading south from Piazza della Libertà down Via Vittorio Veneto, you reach Piazza del Duomo and Udine's 13th-century Romanesque-Gothic cathedral.
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Synagogue
Inside Gorizia’s 18th-century synagogue is a modest exhibition dedicated to the history of the Jewish presence in Gorizia.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo
The east end of Piazza San Antonio Nuovo is dominated by the enormous neoclassical Catholic Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo (1842).
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Museo Paleocristiano
Aquileia’s Museo Paleocristiano exhibits early Christian mosaic floors and tombstones from the surrounding ruins.
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Casa Carsica
Local ethnographic tradition comes to life at the Casa Carsica in Rupingrande, north of Villa Opicina.
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Arco di Riccardo
The Arco di Riccardo is an earlier Roman remnant, one of the old town gateways, dating from 33 BC.
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Chiesa di Santo Spiridione
The striking Serbian Orthodox Chiesa di Santo Spiridione was completed in 1868 and sports glittering mosaics.
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Palazzo Attems
Palazzo Attems is worth a visit for the mansion and the regional 20th-century art.
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Casa delle Farfalle
More than 400 species of tropical butterflies are bred at the Casa delle Farfalle.
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Villa Manin
Contemporary-art lovers will appreciate the exhibitions at Villa Manin, a villa in Passariano, 30km southwest of Udine. Home to the Venetian noble Manin family from the 1600s until as late as the 1990s (when the last count died heirless), which included the last of Venice’s doges, the vast mansion is surrounded by 19 hectares of manicured gardens. Napoleon Bonaparte humiliated Doge Ludovico Manin by turning the mansion into his headquarters in mid-1797 and, in October, signing the Treaty of Campoformido, under which Venice passed to Habsburg Austria. Alight from a train on the Venice–Udine line at Codroipo and take a taxi (or, if you have the patience, one of the few SAF…
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Scuola Mosaicisti
The Scuola Mosaicisti was founded in 1922 and has a public gallery documenting the history of Roman mosaics and its manifestation in present day Friuli. Guided tours can be arranged for €5 or for free with a FVG Card.
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Duomo di Santa Maria Maggiore
The 14th-century Duomo di Santa Maria Maggiore is a Romanesque-Gothic mongrel and offers a west entrance with seven rose-coloured windows that look like so many portholes. Admire the 13th- and 14th-century frescoes depicting Bible scenes and the magnificent 15th-century organ decorated by Il Pordenone.
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